Sergeant York (1941) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero. Director: Abem Finkel (original screen play), Harry Chandlee (original screen play) | 4 more credits » Stars: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 40 titles created 31 Jul 2011 a list of 21 titles created 08 Dec 2011 a list of 38 titles created 29 Dec 2015 a list of 47 titles created 6 months ago a list of 47 titles created 1 month ago Search for " Sergeant York " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Oscars.

Another 2 wins & 10 nominations. See more awards » Photos The story of the life and career of the famed baseball player, Lou Gehrig. Director: Sam Wood A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins. Director: Frank Capra Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers. Director: Frank Capra A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer avoid police and escape from the Mob. Director: Howard Hawks The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War. Director: William Wyler The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan . Director: Michael Curtiz Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru Directors: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, and 1 more credit » Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract. Director: Howard Hawks After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort. Director: Raoul Walsh During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. Director: Howard Hawks Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, and 1 more credit » Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Edit Storyline A hillbilly sharpshooter becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI when he single-handedly attacks and captures a German position using the same strategy as in turkey shoot.

Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> See All (96) » Taglines: America's Greatest Modern Hero! Timelier today than ever . . thrilling and inspiring story of the kind of men that America is made of! See more » Genres: 27 September 1941 (USA) See more » Also Known As: The Amazing Life of Sergeant York See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The actual firearm used by Alvin C. York to dispose of a line of seven Germans was not a Luger as depicted in the film, but rather a 1911 .45 ACP automatic. The Luger was preferred for the filmmaking, however, purely on the basis that they couldn't get the .45 to fire blanks. See more » Goofs When Private York returns from contemplating his exemption back in Tennessee, the clerk permits York into the major's office with, "All right, Sergeant," rather than, "All right, Private," but his promotion to the rank of Corporal has not yet been approved.

See more » Quotes My Country 'tis of Thee (uncredited) Music from "God Save the King" Traditional Played over the opening credits and occasionally throughout the picture Also played at the British medal ceremony A classic and moving war film, even for propaganda 6 August 2002 | by markcarlson2222 (San Diego CA) – See all my reviews This is one of my all-time favorite films. I've seen it dozens of times and probably many more. The moving and deep drama of the Ozark hillbilly working himself to death to obtain some 'bottom land' is heavy and compelling drama in itself, so much so that one tends to wonder when the war will become an issue. But it does and again, it fills the heart and mind with pathos and suspense. Sergeant York was released during WWII, as an obvious war-bond pusher and patriotism builder, and it is no wonder that is was wildly successful. The war scenes and Cooper's acting are set into a realistic and colorful environment of battle and personal conflict.

When York's "You done gimme command" line erupts from the speakers, the viewer is on the edge of his seat, already entranced by the personal heroism of this quiet man. What York did in the war, capturing 132 Germans was real, and the film's portrayal is right on the money, even to the extent, I believe, of filming it on the actual site, but I'm not willing to swear to it. It's the kind of film that makes one proud to be an American and that was its goal. Cooper is entirely believable, although the real Alvin York was hardly as good-looking. It's easy to fall in love with the ever-pretty Joan Leslie, a gem of a woman, as well as the simple and practical Margaret Wycherly as Ma York. Don't you get the idea that she and Pastor Pile have a thing going? Just an irreverent thought. 23 of 38 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes 1941 Academy Awards® Winners and History Suspicion (1941) Actor: GARY COOPER in "Sergeant York", Cary Grant in "Penny Serenade", Walter Huston in "All That Money Can Buy", Robert Montgomery in "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane" Actress: JOAN FONTAINE in "Suspicion", Bette Davis in "The Little Foxes", Olivia de Havilland in "Hold Back the Dawn", Greer Garson in "Blossoms in the Dust", Barbara Stanwyck in "Ball of Fire" Supporting Actor: DONALD CRISP in "How Green Was My Valley" , Walter Brennan in "Sergeant York", Charles Coburn in "The Devil and Miss Jones", James Gleason in "Here Comes Mr.

Jordan", Sydney Greenstreet in "The Maltese Falcon" Supporting Actress: MARY ASTOR in "The Great Lie", Sara Allgood in "How Green Was My Valley" , Patricia Collinge in "The Little Foxes", Teresa Wright in "The Little Foxes", Margaret Wycherly in "Sergeant York" Director: JOHN FORD for "How Green Was My Valley" , Alexander Hall for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", Howard Hawks for "Sergeant York", Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane" , William Wyler for "The Little Foxes" Documentaries were a new category that was added in 1941 (with the Oscar given to Churchill's Island from the Canadian Film Board (and UA), the first of several consecutive WWII documentaries to win in the same category). The Academy Awards ceremony for 1941 was held only a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, on February 26, 1942. Soon, the Hollywood community would rally to boost morale and provide entertainment for the troops.

Carole Lombard died in a tragic plane crash about a month before the Oscar ceremony, on January 16, 1942, after a War Bond rally tour appearance. The Best Picture winner was John Ford's populist, sentimental tale spanning fifty years of an impoverished and disintegrating Welsh mining town and family that was based on Richard Llewellyn's best-selling novel, How Green Was My Valley (with ten nominations and five wins - Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Crisp), Best Director, Best B/W Cinematography by Arthur Miller, and Best Art Direction). Through the eyes of young son Huw (Roddy McDowall), the episodic life (including crises such as strikes and mine disasters, and joys) of the close-knit Morgan family and Welsh coal-mining community were remembered in the narrative.

[In the previous year, Ford had directed another Oscar-nominated family saga, The other nominees for Best Picture included two debut films for its directors, two films with nine nominations each, and one film with eleven nominations: director/writer John Huston's debut film - a fast-paced film noir/mystery based upon Dashiell Hammett's tale The Maltese Falcon (with three nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay, and no wins), about a search for an elusive Black Bird. This masterpiece is considered one of the greatest detective/film-noir classics ever made, but it did not win a single award in any of its three nominated categories director/actor/producer/writer Orson Welles' first feature film - Citizen Kane (with nine nominations and only one win - the only award that the film won was Best Original Screenplay (by Henry J.

Mankiewicz and Orson Welles) - it should have won the Best Picture award); it is generally acknowledged to be the greatest film ever made by critics and film-fans - an intriguing tale about a newspaper publisher/tycoon from his early childhood to his lonely death, told in a series of flashbacks [Twenty five year-old "boy genius" Welles was the first to ever receive simultaneous nominations in four categories: as producer, actor, director, and writer.

The previous year, Charlie Chaplin was the first to ever receive three simultaneous nominations, as producer, actor, and screenwriter for The Great Dictator (1940).] director William Wyler's filming of Lillian Hellman's own play script, The Little Foxes (with nine nominations and no wins!) about a vicious and destructive Southern matriarch director Hitchcock's thrilling tale Suspicion (with three nominations and one win - Best Actress) about a newlywed bride fearful of her wealthy new husband director Howard Hawks' true story of a country boy who becomes a great WWI hero in Sergeant York (with eleven nominations and two wins - Best Actor and Best Film Editing) director Mervyn LeRoy's filming of Anita Loos' screenplay about an orphanage founder, Blossoms in the Dust (with four nominations and one win - Best Color Interior Decoration) director Alexander Hall's romantic fantasy Here Comes Mr.

Jordan (with seven nominations and two wins - Best Original Story and Best Screenplay) about a heavenly mixup and a prizefighter's body-switch [This film served as the inspiration for director/actor Warren Beatty's Best Picture-nominated Heaven Can Wait (1978), originally filmed by director Ernst Lubitsch as the Best Picture-nominated Heaven Can Wait (1943)] director Mitchell Leisen's romance Hold Back the Dawn (with six nominations and no wins) from a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett director Irving Rapper's tale of a turn-of-the-century minister in One Foot in Heaven (with one nomination and no wins) Even more surprising was that Ford (celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary in the film industry) also won for Best Director - it was his third Best Director Award and his second Oscar in a row. (He won previous awards for The Informer (1935) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940) .) [Ford would win one more time eleven years later for The Quiet Man (1952) .] John Huston wasn't nominated for Best Director, but he was nominated for his Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon .

Competing Best Director nominee William Wyler's film The Little Foxes was his sixth film in a row to receive a Best Picture nomination without winning. The previous five films were Dodsworth (1936) , Dead End (1937), Jezebel (1938) , Wuthering Heights (1939) , and The Letter (1940) . It was also Wyler's fourth Best Director nomination in six years without winning - he was nominated in 1936, 1939, 1940, and 1941. [Wyler's first of three Best Director career wins came in 1942, for Mrs. Miniver.] In keeping with the times, Gary Cooper (with his second nomination) won his first Best Actor award for his performance as deeply religious backwoods Tennessee Cumberland Mountains farmer and World War I hero Sergeant Alvin C. York in Howard Hawks' morale booster Sergeant York.

Cooper's whimsical performance defeated greater epic performances by the following actors: Orson Welles (with his sole acting nomination in his career!) as the Hearst-like Charles Foster Kane in His Girl Friday (1940) .] Robert Montgomery (with his second and final unsuccessful nomination) as prizefighter Joe Pendleton who is mistakenly sent to heaven and then returns to earth in the body of a soon-to-be murdered millionaire in Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Walter Huston (with his third nomination) as the Devil (Mr.

Scratch) who bargains with a farmer's soul and orator Daniel Webster in director William Dieterle's All That Money Can Buy (with two nominations and one win - Best Dramatic Picture Score) In the Best Actress category, two sisters were rivals for awards: Joan Fontaine (with her second nomination in the second consecutive year for another Rebecca (1940) -like role) as a shy, spinsterish British girl named Lina McLaidlaw (suspicious of and plagued by her new husband, Cary Grant, and a glass of milk) in Hitchcock's mystery Suspicion and her older sister Olivia de Havilland (with her second nomination) as schoolteacher Emmy Brown (involved in an immigration-marriage scam and in love with Charles Boyer) in the soap Hold Back the Dawn Fontaine won her first Oscar, probably as consolation for the previous year's loss. Both roles were as a victimized young bride. [Her win was the only Best Actress award ever for a Hitchcock film.

De Havilland would win twice in the 1940s for: To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949) .] Other Best Actress nominees included Barbara Stanwyck (with her second of four unsuccessful career nominations from 1937-1948 - she never won!) as burlesque nightclub dancer and gangster moll Sugarpuss O'Shea in director Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (with four nominations and no wins), Greer Garson (with her second nomination - and the first of five consecutive nominations) as Texas orphanage founder Edna Gladney in Blossoms in the Dust, and Bette Davis (with her fifth nomination - and the fourth of five consecutive nominations) as Southern schemer Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes. Donald Crisp (with his sole career nomination) won the Best Supporting Actor award (it was the only Oscar of his long, fifty-five year career) for his role as the stern father of the closely-knit Morgan family of Welsh miners, who is killed in the mine in the film's conclusion in How Green Was My Valley .

Another nominee - Sydney Greenstreet (with his sole career nomination in his 'talking' film debut at age 61), nominated for his performance as obsessed, statuette searcher "Fat Man" Casper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon , was equally deserving. The other nominees were Walter Brennan (with his fourth and last nomination - the only nomination in his career which wasn't a winner) as village Pastor Rosier Pile in Sergeant York, Charles Coburn (with his first nomination) as the world's richest man/department store owner John P. Merrick (who masquerades as a salesclerk) in director Sam Wood's romantic comedy The Devil and Miss Jones (with two nominations and no wins), and James Gleason (with his sole career nomination) as co-star Robert Montgomery's boxer/manager Max Corkle in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Mary Astor (with her sole career nomination) won the Best Supporting Actress award and her first and only Oscar for her performance as Sandra Kovak - a sharp-tongued, selfish and ambitious concert pianist who gives away her baby (when befriended by Bette Davis, wife of her former lover George Brent) in The Great Lie (the film's sole nomination).

The defeated nominees included two co-stars from The Little Foxes: Teresa Wright (with her first nomination in her debut performance) as Alexandra Giddens (daughter of co-stars Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall), and Patricia Collinge (with her sole nomination) as Aunt Birdie Hubbard. The remaining nominees were Sara Allgood (with her sole career nomination) as the loving, supportive, and gentle mother figure Mrs. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley , and Margaret Wycherley (with her sole career nomination) as devoted Mother York in Sergeant York. Disney won another Short Subject: Cartoon Oscar for Lend a Paw - his ninth win in the category. Leopold Stokowski received a Special Award for "unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's technologically-innovative production of Fantasia - a big commercial flop at the time. The film's innovators (Walt Disney, William Garity, John N.A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company) also won a second Special Award for "their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures." Oscar Snubs and Omissions: The Lady Eve went unrecognized.

Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart (as cool, yet tough-talking anti-hero detective Sam Spade) weren't nominated for their work in John Huston's film-noirish mystery The Maltese Falcon . [In fact, Peter Lorre was never nominated for an Oscar.] Bogart had another amazing non-nominated performance also this year, as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle in Raoul Walsh's classic gangster film High Sierra (with no nominations). And Mary Astor, who won for The Great Lie, is better remembered (and would have preferred to have been nominated and victorious) for the murderous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon . Although there was no Oscar awards category for Best Makeup until 1981, Citizen Kane was remarkable in the way that its characters aged from start to finish. And although the film had nine nominations, only one was in an acting category (Best Actor for Orson Welles). Others who had notable performances included: Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland, Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander, Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein, and George Coulouris as Walter Parks Thatcher.

Another unforgivable omission was denying the award of Best B/W Cinematography to nominee Gregg Toland for the film's marvelous photography. Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire and Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman were not included in the group of Best Picture nominees. Vivien Leigh's performance in That Hamilton Woman was also unnominated. Although Gary Cooper won Best Actor for Sergeant York, he had two other equally important hits in 1941 without nominations: Ball of Fire, and Meet John Doe . Bernard Herrmann who wrote some of the most dramatic film scores in the history of cinema (Welles' Gary Cooper - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Producer Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper (not in film business). Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a part in a two reeler by Hans Tissler (an independent ...

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(performer: "Bird Dog" - uncredited) 1956 Friendly Persuasion (performer: "Marry Me, Marry Me" (1956)) 1951 Starlift (performer: "Look Out, Stranger, I'm a Texas Ranger" - uncredited) 1949 Task Force (performer: "Abdulla Bulbul Amir" - uncredited) 1948 Good Sam (performer: "I've Been Redeemed", "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (1910) - uncredited) 1947 Variety Girl ("HARMONY") 1945 Along Came Jones ("On Top of Old Smoky", uncredited) / (performer: "Round and Round", "Old Joe Clark" - uncredited) 1942 The Pride of the Yankees ("Always" (1925), uncredited) / (music: "Always" (1925) - uncredited) / (performer: "Always" (1925) - uncredited) 1941 Meet John Doe (performer: "March of the Swiss Soldiers" (182

9) - uncredited) 1938 The Cowboy and the Lady (performer: "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride", "Annie Laurie" (ca 1834) - uncredited) 1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (performer: "Here Comes Cookie" (1935) - uncredited) 1936 Mr.

Deeds Goes to Town ("Humoresque, Op. 101/7" (1894), uncredited) / (performer: "Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)" (1851) - uncredited) 1936 Desire (performer: "I'm Driving a Bronson 8") 1935 The Wedding Night (performer: "Trail to Mexico (Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie)" - uncredited) Oscars fast facts Home » fastfacts » Oscars fast facts Oscars fast facts The shortest Oscar ceremony ever was the first, held in 1929; it lasted only about 15 minutes as all the winners had been announced three months earlier. The longest Oscar awards ceremony was in 2000, running for 4 hours and 16 minutes – beating a previous record by 16 minutes. Bob Hope has hosted the Oscars 18 times; Billy Crystal is in second place with 8 times. Tom Hanks is the youngest recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received in 2002 at age 45. Kate Winslet received four Oscar nominations before reaching the age of 30.

Elizabeth Taylor received four Oscar nominations before reaching the age of 28. Gone with the Wind, at 3 hours and 56 minutes, was the longest film to have won a Best Picture Oscar; it was also the first film in color to win Best Picture. The 1968 movie, War and Peace, was the longest film (431 minutes) to an Academy Award – for best Foreign picture. Julia Phillips was the first female producer to win Best Picture award, for The Sting (1973). The first female to win the Best Director award was Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008). Henry Fonda was first nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in 1941 for his role in The Grapes of Wrath but had to wait 41 years before he finally achieved a win in 1982 for his role in On Golden Pond. At 76, he is the oldest actor yet to have received the Best Actor award. The oldest actress to win an Oscar is Jessica Tandy – at 81 she won the Best Actress Oscar in 1990 for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy.

Anthony Quinn’s performance as painter Paul Gaugin in Lust for Life (1956) is the shortest ever to win a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, his second Oscar. He was on screen for only 8 minutes. (He won a similar award in 1952 playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s Viva Zapata!) The shortest-ever winning performance for Best Supporting Actress belongs to Beatrice Straight, who won an Oscar in 1976 for her 5 minutes 40 seconds appearance as devastated wife Louise Schumacher in Network. Dame Judi Dench won an Oscar in 1998 for less than 8 minutes of screen time playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. The shortest-ever Best Actor Oscar-winning performance was awarded to David Niven in 1958, having appeared for only 15 minutes and 38 seconds in Separate Tables. The second-shortest winning appearance was made by Anthony Hopkins in 1992, for less than 16 minutes of screen time as Dr Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

In 1948, Jane Wyman won Best Actress award without uttering a word; she played the role of a deaf -mute person in the movie Johnny Belinda. The fewest lines actually spoken by an Oscar-winning actress won Patty Duke a Best Actress in a Supporting Role portraying the deaf and blind Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker. In the role she speaks only one word in the last scene: “Wah-wah” (for “water”). In 1993, Holly Hunter won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as a deaf person in the movie The Piano but she narrated a few scenes and does speak (although her face is covered) in the last scene of the film. The films with the most Oscar wins are Ben-Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, each winning 11 Oscars from 12, 14 and 11 nominations respectively. See more in the lists of Oscar winners .

In total, the Middle-earth series (The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003) – and the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) won 17 Oscars out of 33 nominations. William Wyler has directed more actors to Academy Award success than any other, with 34 nominations and 14 wins. Jack Nicholson leads the Best Actor Academy Award category with wins from 11 nominations, followed by Laurence Olivier, nominated 10 times and receiving one Best Actor award, and then Spencer Tracy with nine nominations resulting in two awards. Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Best Actor awards, with 3 awards (1989, 2007, 2012). Meryl Streep had more Best Actress nominations than any other actress; 14 in total, leading to 3 awards. Katharine Hepburn received 12 nominations for Best Actress and won 4 Academy Awards. Shirley Temple is the youngest performer to receive an Academy Award; in 1934 she received a Special Award when she was only five years old.

Groucho Marx was the oldest Academy Award winner – in 1973 he received a Honorary Award at the age of 83. The first posthumous Oscar winner was Sidney Howard, for the screenplay of Gone with the Wind. Mutiny on The Bounty (1935) was the only film to have had three nominees for Best Actor Oscars (Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone) but won only the Best Picture award. The only tie for Best Actor was between Wallace Beery for The Champ and Fredric March for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in 1932. The only films to win Best Picture and Best Song are Gigi, Going My Way and Titanic. The first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar was Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, in 1991. The award went to Silence of the Lambs but Beauty and the Beast won 2 Oscars: Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

In 1937 Disney won a special Oscar for the first full-length animation: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Oscar families: Two families have three generations of Oscar winners in their ranks: The Huston family: Walter Huston won Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of Sierra Madre); John Huston won Best Director, The Treasure of Sierra Madre in 1948, and Anjlica Huston won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Prizzi’sHonorin 1985. The Hustons and the Coppolas are two families where the grandfather, father and daughter won Oscars.

The Coppola family: Carmine Coppola won Best Original Dramatic Score, The Godfather in 1974; Francis Ford Coppola won Best Original Screenplay for Patron (1970), Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather (1970), Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation won for Best Original Screenplay in 2004; Nicholas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew, won Best Actor for his role in Leaving Las Vegas, in 1995. The Minnelli family: Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner with two Oscar winning parents: her mother Judy Garland, received a honorary Oscar as Outstanding Juvenile Performer for The Wizard of Oz and her father, Vincente Minnelli, won Best Director for Best Picture, Gigi (1958). The Epstein family: The only twins to win Oscars are Julius J Epstein and Philip G Epstein, who shared the Best Screenplay award s with Howard Koch for Casablanca (1942).

12 actors to win an Oscar for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Awards ceremony: Patty Duke playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962) Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938) Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C.

York in Sergeant York (1941) Jason Robards for playing Benjamin Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976) Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980) Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995) Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996) Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000) Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001) Jennifer Connelly for playing Alicia Nash in Beautiful Mind (2001) Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) The Academy Awards and Oscars are trademarks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Updated: March 2013 Sergeant York (1941) Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie - Three Movie Buffs Review Reviewed on: February 6th, 2013 Gary Cooper as Sergeant York.

Sergeant York was the highest grossing film of 1941. It was playing in theaters when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The film's unabashed patriotism was credited with helping recruit soldiers. In some cases young men went directly from the movie theater to the enlistment office. Gary Cooper would later state that this was his favorite of all his pictures. Denied entry in the armed services after America entered WWII due to his age and an old hip injury, Cooper considered this movie to be his contribution to the war effort. Sergeant York was nominated for 11 Academy Awards including three of the acting awards as well as Best Picture, and Best Director for Howard Hawks. Gary Cooper (whom the real Alvin York had insisted play him) won the first of his 2 Oscars in the title role. Walter Brennan, who already had 3 Oscar statuettes in the Supporting Actor category for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940), lost to Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (that movie also took home the Picture, and Director prize (for John Ford) as well).

Margaret Wycherly (who is best remembered today for playing Ma Jarrett to James Cagney's deranged Cody Jarrett in White Heat (1949)) lost her one and only Oscar nomination to Mary Astor in The Great Lie. This is the story of the most decorated American soldier of WWI, but it is much more than just a war picture. The first half of the movie deals with the titular character's life in the rural hills of Tennessee. He is a wild young man that loves to drink, fight and generally raise hell. His mother rules her brood with an iron fist. In one scene she sends Alvin's younger brother (Dickie Moore) to fetch him from a saloon at gun point. Alvin's life begins to change when he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Gracie (Joan Leslie). Alvin York had insisted his wife be portrayed by a wholesome actress, “No Ooomph Girls!” he reportedly said, an obvious reference to Warner's resident sex pot Ann Sheridan. Anyway, York tries to buy some land to impress Gracie but learns it has already been sold to his rival for her affections.

Alvin proceeds to get rip roaring drunk but fate steps in in the form of a lightning bolt. Alvin takes this as a sign from God and changes his ways. He quits drinking and hell raising and begins attending church. When the war comes he is against it and tries to get out of serving by declaring himself a conscientious objector. He is denied C.O. status and gets drafted. The second half of the movie deals with York's time in the military and the war itself, where he eventually captures 132 German soldiers nearly single-handed. The movie ends with him receiving many awards for bravery including the Distinguished Service Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Alvin York returns home a triumphant hero! There is a pivotal scene where Alvin York reconciles his pacifist beliefs with his patriotic duty. As he later explains it, “Well I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me...

I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done.” Howard Hawks direction keeps the story moving along, although it does run a bit over 2 hours. Gary Cooper is perfect as a man that goes from drunken hillbilly to national icon. He exudes such a strong sense of decency and honor as Sergeant York that it is completely understandable why the real man insisted he play him, even though he was at least 10 years too old for the part. Sergeant York is, quite simply, a classic American film! Did you enjoy Patrick's review? +8 Gary Cooper Movies - Ultimate Movie Rankings Ultimate Movie Rankings Where Movies Come to Get Ranked Menu Gary Cooper Movies Gary Cooper in his biggest box office hit ….1943’s For Whom the Bell Tolls Want to know the best Gary Cooper movies? How about the worst Gary Cooper movies? Curious about Gary Cooper box office grosses or which Gary Cooper movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Gary Cooper movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews?

Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information. Gary Cooper (1901–1961) was an American film actor who appeared in over 100 movies from 1923-1961. Unfortunately many of Cooper’s silent movies have been lost forever. So this page will only look at his movie career from his first “talkie” The Virginian (1929), to his last movie, The Naked Edge (1961) which was released a month after his death in 1961. Just a few quick notes on Gary Cooper’s silent movie career. From 1923 to 1929, Cooper appeared in over 40 movies. Most of his roles, were either bit or uncredited parts. He did however appear in some very popular movies during this time period. He played a Roman guard in the original version of Ben-Hur (1925), he had one scene in the first movie to ever win the Oscar® for Best Picture….Wings (1927), and he was in the 1927 box office hit Children of Divorce.

In 1929, he became a major star with his first sound picture, The Virginian. He followed The Virginian with the blockbuster hit Morocco (1931), co-starring Marlene Dietrich in her first American film. Over the next thirty years, Cooper would appear in over 60 movies, earning 5 Oscar® nominations, two Oscar® wins (1941’s Sergeant York and 1952’s High Noon) and numerous blockbuster hits. Two of his movies, Sergeant York and 1943’s For Whom The Bell Tolls are still ranked in the Top 100 box office hits of all-time when you look at adjusted domestic box office numbers. His IMDb page shows 118 acting credits from 1923-1961. This page will rank 66 Gary Cooper movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and many of his silent movies were not included in the page. Gary Cooper in 1952’s High Noon. Gary Cooper Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”.

Rank the movies anyway you want. Sort Gary Cooper movies by his co-stats Sort Gary Cooper movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost. Sort Gary Cooper movies by co-stars of yearly box office rank or trivia if rank not available Sort Gary Cooper movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie. Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gary Cooper movie received. Sort Gary Cooper movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score. *** = Gary Cooper Oscar® nominated performance Rank Box Office Rank By Year Critic Audience Rating Man of the West (1958) Lee J.

Cobbb The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) Franchot Tone A Farewell To Arms (1932) Helen Hayes The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) Ralph Bellamy The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) Vilma Bánky You're in the Navy Now (1951) Eddie Albert The General Died at Dawn (1936) Akim Tamiroff 39.78 Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Gary Cooper Table Forty Gary Cooper movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 56.33% of his movies listed. For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943) was his biggest box office hit. An average Gary Cooper movie grosses $140.10 million in adjusted box office gross. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 52 of Gary Cooper’s movies are rated as good movies…or 73.23% of his movies. High Noon (1952) is his highest rated movie while The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) was his lowest rated movie.

Twenty-six Gary Cooper movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 36.61% of his movies. Eleven Gary Cooper movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 15.49% of his movies. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 52 Gary Cooper movies scored higher that average….or 73.23% of his movies. Sergeant York (1941) got the the highest UMR Score while It’s A Big Country (1951) got the lowest UMR Score. Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in 1936’s Mr. Deeds Goes To Town Possibly Interesting Facts About Gary Cooper. #1 After failing as an editorial cartoonist and a salesman of electronic signs in his early 20s, Gary Cooper moved from Montana to Los Angeles with his parents. His thinking on the move…”would rather starve where it was warm, than to starve and freeze too.” #2 The American Film Institute named Gary Cooper as the 11th best male actor of the Classic Hollywood cinema period.

#3 Gary Cooper married Veronica “Rocky” Balfe in 1933. Despite being separated from between 1951 and 1954, she was with Cooper when he passed away in 1961. They had one daughter together, Maria Cooper. Here you go mom….personal information about him. #4 Gary Cooper made four movies with legendary director Cecil B. DeMille. Those movies were The Plainsman(1936), North West Mounted Police (1940), The Story of Doctor Wassell (1944) and Unconquered (1947). #5 During the filming of The Plainsman, Cecil B. DeMille wanted to fire a very young Mexican actor who was playing an indian. Gary Cooper talked DeMille out of firing the actor. The actor? Anthony Quinn who would go on to win two Oscars®. #6 Cooper was the first choice for the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. When Cooper turned down the role, he was passionately against it. He is quoted as saying, “Gone With The Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history.

I’m glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling flat on his nose, not me” #7 Alfred Hitchcock wanted Gary Cooper to star in 1940’s Foreign Correspondent and 1942’s Sabotuer. Cooper later admitted he had made a “mistake” in turning down the director. #8 Gary Cooper’s reputation as the “strong silent type” goes back to one of his first talking pictures, The Virginian, in which his character had little to say but definitely commanded the respect of those around him. The strong silent type/Gary Cooper was mentioned numerous times in the great HBO series The Sopranos. #9 Cooper was given a Honorary Oscar® in April 1961, his close friend James Stewart, accepted the award on his behalf. Stewart’s emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong, and the next day newspapers ran the headline, “Gary Cooper has cancer.” One month later, on May 13, 1961, six days after his 60th birthday, Cooper died.

Question: In which film did Gary Cooper win an Oscar in 1941 playing the title role?
Answer: SERGEANT YORK